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Medieval Horizons
- Why the Middle Ages Matter
- Written by: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark and backward time, characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. We believe that life was unchanging over the period, so if a peasant fell asleep in in the year 1000 and woke up six hundred years later, he would return to a world that was instantly recognisable. We hold that change is facilitated by science and technological innovation, and that it was the inventions of recent centuries, from the steam engine to the Internet, that created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong.
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Medieval Horizons
- Why the Middle Ages Matter
- Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 23-02-23
- Language: English
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Small Island
- 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain
- Written by: Philip Parker
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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It wasn't long-ago that Britons could have been as at home in Varanasi as they could have been in Wolverhampton—why?—because the shape and location of Britain's land-mass has not always been the same, and with large parts of Britain scattered across the globe, British borders and its identity has always been on the move. But, by knowing more about the twelve pivotal moments that occurred over a 2,000-year period, we can not only gain a full sense of our British history, but we can also understand where we are heading.
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Small Island
- 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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African and Caribbean People in Britain
- A History
- Written by: Hakim Adi
- Narrated by: Brenda Iyalla
- Length: 22 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest. Yet from the very beginning, from the moment humans first stood on this rainy isle, there have been African and Caribbean men and women set at Britain's heart.
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African and Caribbean People in Britain
- A History
- Narrated by: Brenda Iyalla
- Length: 22 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Emergency State
- How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
- Written by: Adam Wagner
- Narrated by: Adam Wagner
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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On 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In 11 pages, it locked down tens of millions of people, confined us to our homes, banned socialising, closed shops, gyms, pubs, places of worship. It restricted our freedoms more than any other law in history, justified by the rapid spread of a deadly new virus. You might have expected such a law to be fiercely debated in Parliament. But it wasn't debated at all. A state of emergency was declared, meaning the law came into force the moment it was signed.
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Emergency State
- How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Adam Wagner
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Written by: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic—so causing a civil war—and a cruel and bigoted mother. Leanda de Lisle's White King was hailed as 'the definitive modern biography about Charles I' (Observer). Here she considers Henrietta Maria's point of view, unpicking the myths to reveal a very different queen.
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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Blood, Fire and Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Written by: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In 16th-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationship: 30 years of friendship, competition and conflict that changed the face of Europe.
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Blood, Fire and Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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Edda Mussolini
- The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
- Written by: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave and ultimately strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and playing a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. From her early 20s, she was effectively first lady of Italy. She married Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest foreign secretary in Italian history.
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Edda Mussolini
- The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Written by: Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams' landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the 18th and 19th centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision.
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 21-04-22
- Language: English
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Written by: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
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As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed.
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- Written by: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 34 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of its existence, German-speaking Europe has been splintered into innumerable states—some substantial and some consisting of just a few Alpine meadows. Its military experience has also been extraordinarily varied: threatened and threatening; a mere buffer-zone, and a global threat. Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book. It encompasses five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea.
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 34 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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The Hong Kong Diaries
- Written by: Chris Patten
- Narrated by: Chris Patten
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
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In June 1992, Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not—as other British colonies over the decades—for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years, he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese.
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The Hong Kong Diaries
- Narrated by: Chris Patten
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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Battles of Conscience
- British Pacifists and the Second World War
- Written by: Tobias Kelly
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten.
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Battles of Conscience
- British Pacifists and the Second World War
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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The Mixed-Race Experience
- Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity
- Written by: Natalie Evans, Naomi Evans
- Narrated by: Natalie Evans, Naomi Evans
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Naomi and Natalie Evans, founders of Everyday Racism, share their experiences of growing up mixed race in Britain, how they process, understand and learn about their identity and use their privilege to advocate for change, as well as addressing the privileges and complexities of being mixed race in Britain today.
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The Mixed-Race Experience
- Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity
- Narrated by: Natalie Evans, Naomi Evans
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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Victory in the West 1945
- Written by: Peter Caddick-Adams TD VR BA (Hons) PhD FRHistS FRGS KJ
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town. Acclaimed military historian Peter Caddick-Adams brings this closing stage of the Allies' fight against Nazi Germany brilliantly to life. He explores the immense challenges they faced in crossing the Rhine on a 300-mile front.
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Victory in the West 1945
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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Rule, Nostalgia
- A Backwards History of Britain
- Written by: Hannah Rose Woods
- Narrated by: Hannah Rose Woods
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Beginning in the present, cultural historian Hannah Rose Woods travels backwards on an eye-opening tour through six centuries of Britain's perennial fixation with its own past, asking why nostalgia has been such an enduring and seductive emotion across hundreds of years of change. Woods separates the history from the fantasy, debunks dangerous and pervasive myths about Britain's past and explores the ways in which nostalgia has historically been mobilised in Britain across the political spectrum, from the radical left to the nationalist right, for both good and for ill.
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Rule, Nostalgia
- A Backwards History of Britain
- Narrated by: Hannah Rose Woods
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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The Quiet Before
- On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
- Written by: Gal Beckerman
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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The Quiet Before is a grand panorama, stretching from the 17th-century correspondence that jump-started the scientific revolution to the groundswell of the Chartists, the liberation movement on the Gold Coast and the underground network of samizdat publications in Soviet Russia - even the encrypted apps used by epidemiologists fighting the pandemic in the shadow of an inept administration. Beckerman shows that defining social movements - from decolonisation to feminism - thrive when they are given the time and space to gestate.
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The Quiet Before
- On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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Growing Up
- Sex in the Sixties
- Written by: Peter Doggett
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom, their hopes and dreams of a different, perhaps better, world. For others, the decade marked the advent of the permissive society, with its undermining of authority, family values and common decency. At the heart of this continuing controversy is sex.
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Growing Up
- Sex in the Sixties
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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Mala's Cat
- The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust
- Written by: Mala Kacenberg
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends are reduced to starvation. She takes matters into her own hands and bravely removes her yellow star, risking sneaking out to the surrounding villages to barter for food.
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Mala's Cat
- The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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The Last Baron
- The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
- Written by: Tom Sancton
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque...
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The Last Baron
- The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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A Duty of Care
- Britain Before and After COVID
- Written by: Peter Hennessy
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate COVID crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the 'five giants' on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state.
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A Duty of Care
- Britain Before and After COVID
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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